The Pro's and Con's of Frequency for online retailers.
There is a happy medium for the frequency of an email newsletter or special promotions. The more you mail in the short term, the more revenue you will see, but what are the long term effects?

As direct marketers, you know "the devil is in the details." Being able to drill-down on results is important to determine future strategies. It takes discipline and the application of direct marketing tenets. But you can fine-tune your results, target better and reap the rewards.

eCommerce Marketers who want to exploit the full potential of e-mail should develop plans to consistently grow their permission-based e-mail lists of customers and prospects. This allows them to build loyalty and promote cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

It always surprises me that as eCommerce marketers we give lip service to the importance of testing, buy many of us don't take the time to fine-tune our email programs. If you are able to identify a few elements through testing that resonate with your customers and then employ those insights in your ongoing program, the improvements may be sustainable over time.

Download Putting Email Marketing in Context to learn:
- How to overcome common challenges of personalisation and email
- Best practices for implementing contextual email on a low budget
- How to measure the effect of your contextual marketing campaigns

Do your emails look great on mobile devices? In the UK, 70% of email opens occur on smartphones and tablets. You know you should be building responsive emails, but where do you start?
Download ‘10 Quick Design Hacks for Responsive Emails’ to discover simple ways to create great-looking emails for mobile devices and see real life examples of how brands are making a big impact on a small screen.

Higher-value content equates to better performance, and no other form of content creates value for consumers like video does. Utilizing video beyond just another type of content asset and more as a marketing program accelerator can turbocharge other marketing programs more effectively and increase total marketing ROI.

Most businesses stay with an ESP for only two years. Switching ESPs is costly, time-consuming and stressful. Wouldn’t you rather choose an ESP you can stick with for the long term? If your answer is “yes,” the 2014 ESP Selection Guide will help that happen.

Looking for an email service provider or wanting to see if your current ESP is really the right fit? The ESPinator is the easiest, most vendor-neutral way to find the top ESPs that match what you need.

Though the holidays seem far away, leading retailers have already started their holiday planning. Whether your planning has kicked off or you haven’t even started, there are several things that you should do to make sure this season is stellar. Making significant changes to your program during the holidays can be difficult and chaotic

Are you constantly jumping from project to project with barely enough time to breathe? When continually pressed for time, how do you efficiently and effectively measure your email marketing programs? This concise and practical guide can help.

Like any relationship, the marketing lifecycle has unique phases with appropriate (and inappropriate) actions. Reading subscriber cues is important in getting this right. Learn about the elements of a strategic email marketing program that help move subscribers from introduction to a lifelong relationship.

To understand the state of email marketing, we examined the sophistication of organizations internal processes for email marketing, and how effectively and efficiently do those programs deliver relevant email.

You'll improve your marketing results when you target your messaging to segments, rather than blasting the same campaign out to all your prospects. Learn how to segment your prospects into groups with shared needs and concerns.

From deliverability to conversion - the quality of your list underwrites your email marketing success. But it's not easy to build a great list, and it's no snap to maintain it. Five of the foremost experts in the field held a powwow; we share the resu